ANZAC Day is the day I most often think of my Pop. I remember how proud he was of me marching as part of HMAS Huon as a musician on the 75th anniversary. Hard to believe that was 25 years ago, a lot has happened since then. This year I was incredibly proud of my son who attended the service proudly wearing medals from both his grandfather and great-grandfather.

A lovely day in early Autumn and I could hear the kookaburras singing. It took a while but eventually I found them. Just as the song says, they were sitting in the old gumtree, merry, merry kings of the bush. I zoomed in with my 300mm lens mounted and the camera sitting on my gorilla pod on the table out the back of the house. What I see is not one kookaburra but three, although shooting through the gum trees I don’t know if the photos show all three.

I tried cropping in to see better, but looking through the leaves the camera sees what the natural eye filters out, so the shot looks blurry. Probably is, I’ve since learned a bit more about how to tweak my manual focus a bit better.